The U.S. Has Been Eclipsed in Every Sphere But War
(Throughout the nineties, Americans were told not to worry, because those gritty industrial jobs would be replaced by clean, well-paid hi-tech employment for everyone willing to learn new skills like computer programming and code-writing. But we soon discovered that most of those jobs would be outsourced, too, or performed by low-paid, hi-tech imported workers from the global South and East.)
This is the trap I'm talking about when I mention how they keep us constantly schooling ourselves. This period having started as jobs were leaving us went from one industry to another over the decades. The medical field was the initial go to when the factory I worked in shut down in 96. As we moved into this time I can recall so many people I knew and worked with were going back to school for some type of medical career. Trucking was another one. Although trucking school is a relatively shorter period of training the schools were booming. It may also be one of the strongest going today. Where the medical field today, well, not so much. I know and hear of so many that went into that field are out of work for various reasons or, the catch, went back to school for another type of career.
Every industry they create ends up with needed education. Then they outsource it, create another, you're back in school. What have the prices of schools been doing since the 90's? Now we have employers complaining they don't have the qualified workers they need. People will go to school now for these jobs, only to soon have them go automated on them in time? Who keeps winning this game?